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Casual cartographing gone serious

Hi everyone, I've been into drawing maps for my games for many years but have been lacking the skill and tools to do that with a computer. Now I think I will go through some tutorials before transfering my old drawings to digital form.
Hopefully the learning curve is not too steep
Already tried doing a continent with PS and it went quite well

If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)

Tee-hee Well here's the latest attempt of a map. This one is actually an attempt to create some nice large inland seas. There are also some past rpg maps that I'm going to do in PS so I will need practice in moving mountains and hills to their proper places. At least this is much better than my first attempt on the tutorial on creating a continent.